01-07-2014, 06:14 AM
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January 7th
1610 ~ The astronomer Galileo Galilei sighted the four moons of Jupiter which are now known as the “Galilean moons”.
1899 ~ Birthday of Francis Poulenc, French composer.
1916 ~ Birthday of Paul Keres, Estonian chess player.
1922 ~ Birthday of Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist.
1943 ~ Death of Nikola Tesla, Inventor & Electrical Engineer.
1953 ~ President Truman, in his State of the Union address, announced that the U.S. had developed a hydrogen bomb.
1979 ~ Vietnamese forces captured Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government.
1980 ~ The Carter Administration authorized giving a $1.5 billion loan to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
1990 ~ The Leaning Tower of Pisa was closed to the public.
1999 ~ President Clinton's impeachment trial began in the Senate. (He was later acquitted on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.)
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